tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19269045206827371972024-03-13T13:33:46.395-07:00yo mama!life with the navajo through images, words + wheat paste.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03158678319710303987noreply@blogger.comBlogger263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926904520682737197.post-34406837318738407142014-06-13T15:04:00.000-07:002014-06-13T15:04:04.713-07:00site migration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alas, the time has come to move on. About half a year ago I changed the format of this blog and haven't been able to return to the original format. Feedback I received from people who checked out "yo mama" said they were frustrated not being able to find images consolidated in one place and found the site to be cumbersome. I've been able to resolve some of these issues on Wordpress and hope you'll find me there. The new site is under construction but should be fully functional soon. Unlike "yo mama" the new site will also have images and stories from The Painted Desert Project (which promises to have another eventful season starting in a few weeks).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yo mama" has served me well since 2009 in that it documents my journey with paste and pictures. Those stories will remain on this site. The new stories can be found at <a href="http://www.jetsonorama.net./">www.jetsonorama.net.</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03158678319710303987noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1926904520682737197.post-4634678259964987082014-02-24T17:17:00.001-08:002014-02-24T17:17:35.667-08:00"manna"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first pasted this image of Stephanie 3 years ago in December of 2010. It was at the beginning of a period I refer to as "The Time of Great Suffering." My fellow physicians were starting to leave and administratively, work was becoming less than satisfying. Three years later work remains challenging. Pasting this picture that winter gave me great joy and has served as a symbol of hope. It went on to become the iconographic image for The Painted Desert Project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the years I've pasted it 3 times on J R's house. Roa painted 2 sleeping foxes and a sleeping rabbit in August of 2012. I was saddened about a year ago when I noticed that one of the doors to the house had been opened (as the house remained solidly boarded up for years). I talked with the owner (J R), who said thieves had broken in and stole household items he'd stored inside. I apologized feeling that art on the house attracted the thieves to it. He dismissed the thievery saying it was okay. He didn't think the theft occurred because his house was painted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a couple months ago I noticed panels were being removed from the house. My first thought was that the art was being rejected by the community. I called J R and once again apologized for the destruction of his house and offered to make to a donation to help him recover some of his losses from the theft and the wood that was being removed. I was relieved to learn that he'd sold the house and the new owner decided to rebuild. The art wasn't being rejected out of malice. Still, I sent him a thank you check for letting me use the space to post work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My dad was fond of saying "...Nothing stays the same forever. Things either get better or they get worse but it doesn't stay the same." This house provided me with much happiness over the past 3 years and in it's transformation it's reminding me on an ongoing lesson of this project - try to create beauty with good intention and then let go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i met lola this past november in milwaukee. she stole my heart immediately. lola belongs to the family of artist, author, activist, academician, anarchist, archivist, animal lover nicolas lampert (who has probably been called worse + who just published "a people's art history of the united states: 250 years of activist art and activists working in social justice movements." this recently released book is <a href="http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2013/11/a_peoples_art_history_of_the_u.html" target="_blank">available through the printmaking collective just seeds</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">last month a councilman on the reservation introduced a bill to the navajo legislature called "the twinkie death tax." the purpose of the bill was to tax junk food and to not tax fruits + vegetables (as is the current practice). money raised from the tax would be used to build wellness centers in chapters across the 27,500 square mile reservation. apparently the vote was close but ultimately the measure was defeated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the grassroots group that organized to pass the legislation noted that the only time representatives from soft drink companies have attended chapter meetings and hearings on the rez was to speak out against it. had it passed, the navajo nation would have been the first reservation in the country and one of the first municipalities to pass such a law. fortunately, the legislation is going to be introduced again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i contacted the <a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/05/support-food-sovereignty-pass-twinkie-death-tax" target="_blank">diné community advocacy alliance</a> who was responsible for spearheading the effort to pass the twinkie death tax hoping to generate some visuals in prominent places to support their efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to this end, i visited 4 friends today who live nearby. i wanted to get a better idea of what people are eating. it's one thing to talk abstractly about the rez being a <a href="http://flowingdata.com/2013/08/27/in-search-of-food-deserts/" target="_blank">food desert</a> and another thing to get someone to open their refrigerator and cupboards. three of the 4 friends have no running water or electricity which automatically limits what they eat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i started the day with julian's mom, elaine, whom i've known for the 26 years i've worked here. she said on her limited income from working 4 hours/day at the senior center she had to choose between transportation and electricity and running water. she chose transportation and has been without utilities for the past month or so. fortunately, her garden has been proliferative this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's been an interesting time since the painted desert artists for this spring left. i spent 2 weeks in philadelphia working on a project with the philadelphia mural arts program that resulted in a major fail. the day i arrived in philly i learned that the wall i was supposed to work on was no longer available to me. there was a land auction the day i flew to philly and one developer purchased the plot beside the divine lorraine hotel that i was to work on. developer number 2 wouldn't allow the philly mural arts people and myself to place a lift onto their property to gain access to the wall i was to work on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the work in the 2 photos above is by the artist you go girl. the plan was for me to do a piece on the first wall that interacted with the you go girl tag. this led me to meeting and doing a project with philly born poet and song writer, ursula rucker. she led workshops with high school students at sayre high school whom i photographed for a mural at the school. i learned today that the school merged with another school and the principal whom we worked with and who was supportive of the mural was fired. so, we'll see what, if anything, becomes of the photos of ursula and the sayre students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's been a most incredible 2 weeks having <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.486405664764407.1073741829.284583348279974&type=1" target="_blank">alexis diaz</a> from puerto rico, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.486411728097134.1073741830.284583348279974&type=1" target="_blank">ever</a> from argentina + <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.486402744764699.1073741828.284583348279974&type=1" target="_blank">brian barneclo</a> from san francisco here to get an introduction to the culture then painting murals. in truth, it was a dream come true getting that group here. their murals are characteristic of their styles yet reflective of their experiences here. thank you for your love you guys and thanks to ann van hulle for keeping us well fed and to alex maloutas for the good vibes and trouble shooting. you guys are the bomb!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ha! i went back to sina's trailer today with what i thought was a killer installation planned. i was going to place sheep + goats in the foreground of marley's image on the remains of a stand sina used to run. here's the mock up...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i pulled up. aldo came over to greet me. as it turned out the wind hit their stand really badly over the past week. they lost 7 4x8 boards. they were just blown away. so the family was out repairing the stand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anyway, i met brunnell's dad, benjamin. brunnell is lisa's cousin brother (who a wrote about a couple weeks ago). benjamin is a viet nam vet. he carries those experiences with him deeply. they haunt him. they haunt his sleep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i finished the day working at what i've always thought of as the old tsinnie stand on 89, north of the 160 junction to tuba city. i learned that marje alfred has the stand closest to the south facing wall i've been working for over 3 years. apparently i'd met her a couple summers ago. she reminded me that i work with her cousin sister at the clinic. it felt really good to be working on a familiar stand with someone on 89 north who has known me for a while and appreciates what i'm doing. marge asked me to do her north wall as well. it was the same good feeling i got stopping at aldo + lisa's stand today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple years ago I was doing a wheat paste installation on a friend's outhouse at his rodeo arena. A team roping competition was to start several hours later. I woke up around 5 a.m., drove an hour to the site and started working before sunrise. An 18 wheeler loaded with calves was parked nearby. A white cowboy emerged from the cab and groggily made his way to the outhouse. Upon seeing me he mumbled to himself "...Where else would you find on old black man wallpapering the outside of an outhouse at dawn at a rodeo event on an Indian reservation? Only in America." We both laughed. In retrospect, it was an improbable moment but in the words of Spaulding Gray, it was also a perfect moment in that it captured the bridge building potential of public art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's the question I get asked most frequently - what the fuck is an old black doctor doing wheat pasting images of Navajo people along the roadside on the reservation? It's an unlikely journey. However, upon further inspection it makes perfect sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came to work at a small clinic on the Navajo nation 26 years ago bright eyed and full of idealism and misconceptions. My first misconception was that as an African-American I'd be accepted by the Navajo who'd share a sense of solidarity with me as a member of a historically oppressed group like themselves. Wrong. I learned quickly that people here are focused on addressing their daily needs such as herding sheep, hauling water, firewood and/or coal and taking care of family first. Acceptance into the community is hard won. There's an expression amongst Navajo people that unless you've walked amongst them for 2 years, they don't take you into their trust. They've grown weary of outsiders coming to take from them leaving little in return.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first year here I set up a black and white darkroom. After work I'd go out into the community to spend time with people as they were doing chores around their homesteads or hanging out with their families often getting to photograph these experiences. I'd started shooting black and white film in junior high school. My junior high school experience was unique and in retrospect, was instrumental in influencing my efforts to contribute fully to my adopted community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I attended a small, alternative school in the mountains of North Carolina called The Arthur Morgan School. The school had only 24 students, aged 12 - 15 in grades 7, 8 and 9. Being an actively engaged community member was demonstrated to us in practical terms every day. Each student had work assignments that we'd rotate weekly. The projects involved everything from preparing meals to working in the garden to repairing bridges on the dirt roads around the school. Once a week we'd have community meetings where students and staff would sit around in a large circle to discuss issues affecting our lives at the school. Coming from a traditional, all black public school, I remember being impressed that my opinion in these meetings mattered just as much as anyone else's opinion including our principal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Navajo nation is located in the Four Corners region of the U.S. The land area is 27,500 square miles in size which is larger than the state of West Virginia. It's home to roughly 160,000 people. Coal, natural gas, oil, uranium are found in abundance here. The Navajo should be one of the wealthiest groups of people living in the U. S. However, because of the way the contracts were written to exploit those natural resources, the Navajo people are amongst the poorest people in the U. S. Health problems on the reservation reflect those of other impoverished communities. Rates of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, alcohol and drug abuse, domestic violence, teen pregnancy, interpersonal violence are all higher than the national average. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In the midst of what many from outside the reservation characterize as overwhelmingly dire circumstances, there are people living lives of dignity, celebrating the joys of family, farming and community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first intersection of public art and public health occurred shortly after I arrived on the reservation. Concerned with what we considered irresponsible advertising in that it was promoting cheap, sugary drinks in a population plagued with Type 2 Diabetes, a community health nurse and I went out one night to correct a billboard on the reservation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wikipedia defines community as a social unit that shares common values. The reference says that "in human communities intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> What does it mean then to build community and what are the implications of such an undertaking for someone from another community whose belief system differs from the host community? I didn't consider any of these questions before I started placing photographs along the roadside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During my time on the reservation I'd been following street art from a distance. Any time I'd go to a big city with graffiti or street art, I'd definitely notice it. In the mid 90s I did a project I called the Urban Guerrilla Art Assault where I'd place black and white photos on community bulletin boards and in store windows in Flagstaff. In 2004 I travelled to Brazil for the first time and was blown away by the abundance, diversity and caliber of the street art there. I returned to Brazil for 3 months in 2009. The first day of my return the feeling of being alive and intrigued by art on the street made by the people and for the people consumed me again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was one guy whose work I saw and liked as I moved around Bahia. His name is Limpo. It turned out that during my last 3 weeks there I rented a flat immediately above his studio. I spent everyday in his studio talking with him and street artists from around the world who'd stop by to share ideas in sketch books, videos online and street art books. The highlight was getting to go out on the street with one of the artists as he did a piece. These guys loved what they were doing. Their energy and enthusiasm were infectious. As I left Brazil, the street art community that had embraced me and stirred something in my soul said "keep it going!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I returned to the States I decided to enlarge and start wheat pasting images from my 22 year archive of negatives along the roadside. I got a recipe for boiling wheat paste off the internet, talked with people at Kinko's about how to make enlargements and away I went. My first forays were at night. I pasted onto roadside stands where people sell jewelry to tourists venturing to the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley and Lake Powell. As I contemplated doing this, I had to consider how to introduce a new art form into a traditional culture? What imagery is acceptable? After stumbling a couple times, I settled on what I considered universally beloved Navajo themes - Code Talkers, sheep and elders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my first pastings was of Navajo Code Talkers that I pasted onto an abandoned, deteriorating jewelry stand along the highway to Flagstaff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was shocked a week later as I drove by the stand to find people out repairing it. Curious, I stopped to find out what was up. The guys working on the stand didn't know I was the person who'd placed the Code Talker photo there. They said that so many tourists were stopping to photograph the stand, they decided to repair it and start using it again. I asked if I could take a photo as well and then told them that I placed the image there. They responded by asking me to put something at the other end to stop traffic coming from that direction. This was my first validation from the community to continue pasting and it was my </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">first insight into the potential of art to promote economic independence for the roadside vendors. More importantly, I appreciated the potential of this work serving as a tool to bridge cultures and races of people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is through these types of interactions with people as I'm installing art that I get to better know my community apart from the constrained interactions I have in the clinic. Installing art in communities on the reservation where people don't know I'm a doctor who has been here for 26 years and that I have a sixteen year old 1/2 Navajo son, I defend what I'm doing by telling people that my project is a mirror reflecting back to the community the beauty they've shared with me over the past quarter century. It's my hope that a stronger sense of self and collective identity is nurtured through the images which thereby strengthens the community. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Last summer I decided to pursue a dream suggested by a fellow street artist to invite some of my favorite artists out to the reservation to paint murals and to work with local youth. I called this experience The Painted Desert Project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Painted Desert Project hates stereotypes, respects the unique culture in which it operates and spreads love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the first group of artists came out last summer to paint murals (which included Gaia, Labrona, Overunder, Doodles, Tom Greyeyes and Thomas "Breeze" Marcus), I sent to the non Native American artists copies of a chapter on the Navajo creation story, a book of images and observations about the land and the people, a beaded item from one of the roadside stands and a film ("Broken Rainbow"), in an effort to sensitize the artists to the different world view here. I attempted to pair artists with various roadside stand owners and arranged for sweats with tribal elders to bless our efforts and to give the artists an idea of acceptable imagery and Navajo taboos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's important to me that artists come to the project without preconceived ideas of what they're going to paint. It's important that they have enough time to interact with community members and spend time in this land of enormous skies and stunning landscapes then create work that reflects this interplay of cultures and landscape. In this way, it's responsive to the moment like jazz. My hope is that the artist leaves enlightened and that the community feels enriched or vice versa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last summer as the first group of artists was preparing to leave, we did something I'd never done in my long tenure here. We invited members from the community to my house to share a dinner with the artists. It was a simple meal shared around a candlelight lit table outdoors under the stars. How can this type of rich exchange not inform my medical practice which like my art practice attempts to heal and spread love?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My hope for the project this year is to not only share art but to do community service projects. For example, last summer Doodles painted a killer mural on a nearby food stand which burned down last fall. I'd very much like to get him back this summer to help the vendor rebuild the stand and then repaint it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So when mofos ask me what's up? What's an old black doctor man doing wheat pasting on the Navajo nation? I tell them like the brothers told me in Brazil. I'm just trying to keep a good feeling going round and around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i loved that this vendor (whose name i think is evelyn), is occupying a spot where the arizona department of transportation recently tore down a large, long running stand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i drove over to marley's mom (sina's), trailer today hoping to get a piece up over there. it was so windy i had to bag it. that was okay though. it gave me a chance to talk with some of the vendors and to hang out with marley for a bit. she told me some people in the community have an issue with the art but that she tries to explain to them why the art is of value to the spirit of the community and why she sees it as a good thing. i was really touched to have this conversation with her. i rarely get to hear negative feedback or concerns from the community.</span></div>
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